Thursday, September 9, 2010

stuff (annoying) people like

1) Walking up to a box office and asking for a parking pass

2) Walking through a turnstile at a busy train station and stopping immediately upon reaching the other side- so as to make you trip and drop your coffee- particularly effective when subject is small and carrying many, many bags... you know, for all their things. They need those things. For their day.

3) Not having any fucking idea what they're talking about (see fig. 1)

fig. 1
Woman approaches Box Office
WOMAN: I'd like to go the concert.
ATTENDANT: Of course, and which concert is that?
W: The one tonight.
A: There isn't a concert tonight.
W: Yeah, yeah that one.
A: I'm sorry, no, there is not a concert tonight.
W: But what about at like seven or seven thirty or something?
A: I'm sorry, no... there is no concert tonight. There is a concert tomorrow night, if that is what you're referring to.
W: No I need it to be tonight. Tomorrow I have plans.

4) Taking roughly four minutes to decide what to order at the Starbucks counter after having spent seven minutes in line. This may include asking the barista and/or cashier what they would recommend, NOT following that advice, and then just getting a tall coffee and smiling a faux apology to the line behind her, which now stretches out the door, down the block, across the street, into my apartment and onto my bed, where I have now missed out on a cumulative eleven minutes of sleep.

5) Not responding until you follow-up with them, asking if they would mind responding

6) Buying cheap boots with plastic heels that make that horrible, higher-sounding, vibrating, echoing clack on the linoleum and walking just lightly enough that the sound isn't one, solid noise but a split-second of those little vibrations, each one sounding different from the last.

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